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  • IWB takes over Kunz-Solartech

    IWB takes over Kunz-Solartech

    The Basel-based energy supplier IWB is acquiring Kunz-Solartech GmbH of Aargau. The takeover is intended to strengthen IWB’s position in the growth market for photovoltaic systems, the energy supplier explains in a corresponding statement. No details are given there about the purchase price.

    IWB plans to expand its own production capacities for solar power to at least 100 megawatts by 2023. In addition, the company implements photovoltaic systems for private and business customers. The company’s subsidiary Planeco specialises in the construction of large and complex solar plants. Kunz-Solartech GmbH, which focuses on the planning and installation of photovoltaic systems for private customers and SMEs, is to round off IWB’s range of services.

    “There are still far too many roofs without photovoltaics and the installation companies are working to full capacity,” Markus Balmer, Head of Sales at IWB, is quoted as saying in the statement. For Nico Knubel, Managing Director of Kunz-Solartech, on the other hand, IWB is “a large and established partner that offers our employees secure prospects for the future”. Under the IWB umbrella, his company can make even better use of the potential in the growing solar market and realise many more plants for its customers.

  • Biochar makes the Swiss more sustainable

    Biochar makes the Swiss more sustainable

    The Swiss Wrestling and Alpine Festival ( ESAF ), which is held every three years, will take place in Pratteln from August 26th to 28th this year. Subsequently, Industrielle Werke Basel ( IWB ) will process the 245 cubic meters of sawdust used for the sawdust rings and the wood chips from other areas of the festival site into around 8 tons of biochar, IWB informed in a statement . Around 20 tons of CO2 are stored long-term in this biochar. The project is part of the federal government's sustainability strategy.

    Sawdust is in itself a climate-friendly material because it is CO2-neutral, explains IWB. However, the conversion into biochar further improves the CO2 balance. Because the biochar obtained in the pyrolysis process in the absence of oxygen and at temperatures of 600 degrees Celsius removes the CO2 from the atmosphere over the long term. As a "welcome by-product", the pyrolysis also produces waste heat, which IWB feeds into the district heating network.